Undergraduate Handbook - School of Computing and Informatics ...

evolution of crypto systems; To develop tools necessary to crypto analyze crypto systems; To gain insights in the
practical application of cryptology and error correction in the modern information age; To understand the goals and
trade-offs associated with encryption and error-control coding systems.
Indicative Content; History of cryptology and coding theory; Shift registers Classical crypto-systems; Stream
ciphers; Block ciphers; Information theory; Crypto analysis techniques; Introduction to Elliptic curve cryptography;
Basic Algebra; Coding theory fundamentals; Linear codes; Hamming codes; Secret sharing schemes; Introduction
to Complexity; Hash functions; PGP & PKI Deffie-hellman key exchange protocol.
Reference Books:
i. A. Menezes, P. van Oorschot, and S. Vanstone, Handbook of Applied Cryptography, CRC Press, 1996.
ii. W. Trappe and C. Washington, Introduction to Cryptography with Coding Theory, 2nd edition, Prentice
Hall, 2006.
iii. S. Singh, The Code Book, Doubleday, 1999.
iv. S. S. Adams, Introduction to Algebraic Coding Theory with Gap, 2005.
CSC 3103: User Interface Design (4 CU)
Course Description The course introduces the principles of user interface development, focusing on design,
implementation and evaluation. The course aims at providing different skills to students, such as: Developing
efficient, flexible and interactive User Interfaces (UI); Provide ability to identifying system users, the tasks they
want to carry out and the environment in which they will be working; Creating a conceptual designs; Designing
various kinds of UI, in particular graphical user interfaces (GUIs) and websites; evaluating UIs; Appreciation of
realities of developing usable UIs in an organization.
Indicative Content: Usability; User-Centered Design; UI Software Architecture; Human Capabilities; Output
Models; Conceptual Models and Metaphors; Input Models; Design Principles; Paper Prototyping; Constraints and
Layouts; Graphic Design; Computer Prototyping; Heuristic Evaluation; User Testing; Experiment Design and
Experiment Analysis.
Reference Books:
i. D. A. Norman, The Design of Everyday Things. New York, NY: Doubleday, 1990.
ii. J. Nielsen, Usability Engineering. Burlington, MA: Academic Press, 1994.
iii. K. Mullet and D. Sano, Designing Visual Interfaces: Communication oriented techniques. Prentice Hall,
1994.
CSC 3112: Principles of Programming Languages (3 CU)
Course Description: The course introduces students to the low level organization and operation of programming
languages. It covers semantic and syntactic as well as operational issues in programming languages. The building
blocks of programming languages are explored. The course gives students fundamental knowledge in the
organization and operation of programming languages. Students learn to appreciate the possible future evolutions of
programming languages. It exposes students to causes of operational (like performance, security, etc) characteristics
of programming languages. By the end of the course, students will be able to understand common language
paradigms; know the different building blocks of a programming language; know how the different blocks of a
programming language interact
Indicative Content:
• Overview over programming language paradigms; Common principles: syntax, syntax trees, formal
semantics (denotation and operational), variables and binding
• Types: role of types in programming and programming languages, types and their operations: products,
sums, functions, recursive types, reference and array types
• Primarily imperative issues: control flow, arrays, pointers and references, parameter-passing mechanisms,
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